Word: wilson
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Edwin F. Gay, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration since 1908, has been appointed a member of the War Trade Board by President Wilson. Dean Gay became a member of the Commercial Economy Board of the Council of National Defence early last spring, on which he has been serving up to the present time. It was only recently that this work forced him to abandon his office as head of the Business School, which position he will probably resume at the close...
Undeniably gross faults stand out. One witty undergraduate gave proof of that fact when he declared that under no conditions would he let his studies interfere with his college education. President Wilson showed his grasp of the situation when he said that he believed the side-shows of college life had diverted the interest and attention of students from the main issue. An author--an alumnus of Yale--puts these word into the mouth of one of his characters: "The American colleges and universities today are splendidly equipped institutions organized for the prevention of learning." One writer refers...
...from being in sympathy with the multitude of gross errors and delays which have been committed in the most important of all business in the present day, namely, preparation for the war; but we think that before too much criticism is launched against President Wilson for lack of judgment in filling his appointive offices we should remember that to secure efficiently we must relinquish the democracy our ancestors so dearly cherished...
ANDOVER. 1921. Temple, r.w. r.w., Avery Flanders, r.c. r.c., Bigelow Dodd, l.c. l.c., Buntin Adams, l.w. l.w., Bacon Wilson, p. p., Sessions Kahn, c.p. c.p., Humphrey Davis, g. g., C. Stillman...
...arrangement will demand much hard work on the part of both students and faculty in order to accomplish the required amount of work in the shorter time. It has been established in accordance with the request of President Wilson that the colleges shall not omit or diminish any portion of the training which it is their patriotic duty to continue. Brown and Pennsylvania State authorities feel that the students ought to be able to enter on various forms of service at the earlier date, if it is quite possible for them to do so by a little more effort...